At age 64 I had never been involved in politics before except to
vote—only paying attention to the basics about the candidates. My brother, who
is always involved in politics and an author of several books on environmental
law, started sending me information and excerpts about Barack Obama. He
commented that one day MAYBE he would run for president. I was also
impressed that he seemed to have a vision for America
that was really significant...
...I must have inherited my father’s “deep identification with the working
class” which caused me to become totally involved in Barack Obama’s
campaign for President of the United
States. I never realized the
connection until I recently re-read my father’s recollections. Before
that I kept saying “I honestly can’t even describe what is happening to
me”. But I now see that the crisis American people faced made me
feel desperate to try to do something about it before it was too late. And my
father and grandfather's concern for "the working class and the underdogs
in society" was also alive in me.
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